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Red Cooked Pork (Hong Shao Rou): Grandma’s Version
Updated:View Post: Red Cooked Pork (Hong Shao Rou): Grandma’s VersionHere’s the final recipe in this first “Cooking with Grandma” series. We’re going out with a bang with this red cooked pork – hong shao rou. Today, we come to you with Hong Shao Rou, our grandma’s version. She makes…
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ON LOCATION IN HONGCUN
Updated:View Post: ON LOCATION IN HONGCUNOkay, so if you’ve seen Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon… (as in, swordfights/intrigue/flying through bamboo forests/repressed female ambition) then you’ve actually seen this place—an ancient Chinese village in Anhui Province called Hongcun. I mean, come on. Can’t you see ALL of…
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Pan-Fried Tofu with Soy Dipping Sauce
Updated:View Post: Pan-Fried Tofu with Soy Dipping SauceAnother easy-to-follow yet delicious recipe from Grandma coming atcha! This pan-fried tofu is a really easy way to make tofu. By pan-frying it, you get a nice, slightly crispy texture on it and then dip it in this awesome sauce. We…
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Peaches, Tchotchkes, and Some Healthy Pushing/Shoving
Updated:View Post: Peaches, Tchotchkes, and Some Healthy Pushing/ShovingThe peach festival has come and gone. If you haven’t already read a little about it in our Peach Pie post, it’s an annual church sale in our area where people donate all their unwanted housewares, kitchen items, Christmas decorations, furniture,…
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Peach Pie Recipe
Updated:View Post: Peach Pie RecipeHeyyy ya’lllllllll (I like to pretend to be southern when making, talking about, and/or eating peach pie. It’s the whole Georgia peach thing, I think). I’m weird. Told you we’d have a peach pie recipe up on the blog before…
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Jersey Peaches vs. Beijing Peaches
Updated:View Post: Jersey Peaches vs. Beijing PeachesIn a contest between peaches from NJ and peaches from Beijing, there is no contest. Jersey peaches are the best. I say this of course, without having ever tried Georgia peaches. But every summer, the peaches we get around our…
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A Day at the Beach
Updated:View Post: A Day at the BeachAh, the beach. The sun! the sand! The beach umbrellas dotting the horizon! After a particularly rainy June and a scorching July, the weather has finally been cooperating around here. It was a sunny, breezy 80 degrees when a couple…
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Chinese Braised Beef Shank
Updated:View Post: Chinese Braised Beef ShankChinese Braised Beef Shank is a traditional cold sliced beef dish that’s often found as an appetizer at Chinese banquet-style dinners. It’s great on its own or garnished with some sesame seeds and chopped scallion. Oh yeah, and this is…
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A Day in Flushing
Updated:View Post: A Day in FlushingThis weekend, my sister and I decided to make a last-minute trek out to Flushing, NY, where my grandparents and cousins live. After a little bit of coordination on my and Sarah’s end to get into Chinatown from our respective…
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Thai Salad with Chicken and Lime Peanut Dressing
Updated:View Post: Thai Salad with Chicken and Lime Peanut DressingThe other day, I had a mega-craving for Thai food. But, alas, I didn’t have any Thai basil on hand, or rice noodles (because of course, like the uh…non-Thai person that I am, the things that I most associate with…
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Pork Belly with Bell Peppers and Wood Ear Mushrooms
Updated:View Post: Pork Belly with Bell Peppers and Wood Ear MushroomsIt’s our next recipe in the “Cooking with Grandma” series! With only five ingredients, it’s amazing how good this is: Pork Belly with Bell Peppers and Woodear Mushrooms. But I think that has a lot to do with what Chinese…
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This Cactus Is Insulting Me
Updated:View Post: This Cactus Is Insulting MeOne thing I’ve learned in Beijing is that everyone is pretty health conscious. That includes drinking lots of tea and water during the day, drinking lukewarm or hot water and never cold/ice water, eating on time and never skipping meals,…
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Cong You Bing Scallion Pancakes with Dipping Sauce
Updated:View Post: Cong You Bing Scallion Pancakes with Dipping SauceScallion pancakes or Cong You Bing (葱油饼) are the quintessential Chinese snack. When we were younger, my sister and I used to come home from school and take a scallion pancake out of the freezer to relieve those after-school hunger pangs.…
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A Tale of Woe, Misfortune & Blackberries
Updated:View Post: A Tale of Woe, Misfortune & BlackberriesSo, uh…I was going to post a recipe today. Blackberry squares. I was excited. There I was… Toasting walnuts. Taking out these lovely frozen blackberries… Thawing them out to perfection… Mixing sugar and butter and yogurt…with lemon zest and vanilla.…
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Meditations on Technology & Memory
Updated:View Post: Meditations on Technology & MemoryMy first cell phone was a cheap flip phone that cost $10. I got it when I was in eighth grade, not too long after an incident at a large outdoor festival when I got lost and a little bit…
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Tilapia and Mixed Vegetable Stir-Fry
Updated:View Post: Tilapia and Mixed Vegetable Stir-FryThis tilapia fish recipe kind of snuck up on me. It’s really simple to make and was my mom’s healthy, tasty, and no-fuss way of preparing those on-sale fillets that we had in the freezer. The first time my mom made…
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Curry Lime Chicken Phyllo Rolls
Updated:View Post: Curry Lime Chicken Phyllo RollsThese Curry Lime Chicken Phyllo Rolls were adapted from Ina Garten’s Crab Strudel recipe, which is awesome. But I’m not an established TV personality who regularly throws around phrases like “good olive oil” and “lunch in East Hampton,” so lump…
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The Beijing Breakfast Dilemma
Updated:View Post: The Beijing Breakfast DilemmaHmm, what to eat for Beijing breakfast … Well, you may be wondering what the choices are. Here’s a good selection: All delicious. So as you can probably tell, my latest dilemma has been a little extra room in the…
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